Elon Musk advises Tesla's self-driving technology to Meta Platforms

Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO, recommended Tesla's self-driving technology to Meta Platforms Inc META, the chief artificial intelligence scientist looking for the missing element in machine learning.

What happened? You should try Tesla self-driving, Musk said in response to Yann LeCun's Twitter post on teaching machines how the world works.

Obviously, we are still missing something big for machines to reach human-level intelligence, LeCun said.

The scientist and researcher, also professor at New York University, posed two questions to those who think AGI is upon us - on the unavailability of level - 5 autonomous driving and the lack of domestic robots that can clear a dinner table. The two tasks can be effectively performed by a 17-year-old with 20 hours of driving training and a 10-year-old respectively, LeCun said.

In response to Musk's advice, LeCun said he would try self-driving as soon as he received it on his 2023 Model S Plaid, confirming himself to be a Tesla user. I've been using Autopilot since 2015, when I got my first model S, he said.

Musk again responded to LeCun and said: Just tap the button for FSD Beta. Last month, more than 1,000 parties including Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak signed an open letter calling for a pause on training AI systems exceeding OpenAI GPT 4, LeCun had responded to the hyperventilation about AI as preposterously stupid and based on a complete misunderstanding. LeCun and Musk have criticized each other over AI, if at all. Why are people afraid of AI when we have nothing to do if we have only a demo of a system capable of human intelligence? Musk wrote to LeCun in April.

The German newspaper Handelsblatt reported yesterday that customers filed more than 2,400 complaints about self-acceleration problems and 1,500 complaints about braking problems between 2015 and March 2022. While most of these incident involving FSD features had minor consequences, some resulted in fatal outcomes, the report said, based on data leaked from Tesla's IT system.

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